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Images and Info

Adirondacks Image Galleries

Mountains 2000	Peaks 2001	Random Scoots 2002
Cliffhangers 2003	Adirondacks 2004	With N & N 2005
Winter 2005-06	May 2-4 Weekend '06	ADK Highs 2006
Winter & Summer '07	Winter & Fall '08	March 2009
Fall 2010	Summer & Fall 2011	Summer & Fall 2013
	Summer 2014
All images on this page and the above galleries:

Bonus Images!

Thank you for visiting: as a special bonus, here are a few panoramas of the best place on earth to be:

Click the image for a full-size panorama (looking southeast from Lake Placid village at the golf course) (May 2006) (160 kB);
click here for a full-size panorama with major peaks named.

Click the image for a full-size panorama of the High Peaks from Phelps Mt. (July 2007) (4.95 MB);
click here for a full-size panorama with major peaks named (3.73 MB).

Click the image for a full-size view of the pond at Marcy Dam in winter (looking east towards Phelps Mt.) (January 2008) (433 kB)

Click the image for a full-size view from the west summit of Gothics (August 2013) at least 16 other 4000+-footers in view. (3.2 MB)

Hiker Information

"Lost in the Woods" - a PDF pamphlet from the NY State Dept of Environmental Conservation. Useful reading when planning and prior to going on ANY trip to the mountains.

Here are some pdf files of maps that may be useful to hikers. Please remember to use these maps and information at your own risk: trail information may be dated, times reflect our own speed not yours, and conditions are all subject to change.

Hikes for families with Young Children:
(and, without insult, those wanting just a few nice hikes without too many beastly climbs) (Marcy Dam 2014-09-04)

Adirondak Loj property (564 kB, pdf)
Mount Jo (125 kB, pdf)
Marcy Dam & Phelps Brook (148 kB, pdf)
Owen and Copperas Ponds (240 kB, pdf)
Owl's Head (71kB, pdf)
Pitchoff (West end, balanced rocks, from Rte 73) (108 kB, pdf)
Snow (120kB, PDF)
[Cover page if you want to print a pretty booklet] (129 kB, pdf)

Annotated maps: (Gray-Skylight 2014-09-04)

Avalanche Pass (218 kB, pdf)
Basin and Saddleback from JBL (1.8 MB, pdf)
Big Slide via the Brothers (1.6 MB, pdf)
Cascade & Porter Mountains (426 kB, pdf)
Cliff - Redfield - Marshall (240 kB, pdf)
Colden from ADK Loj (427 kB, pdf)
Haystack from JBL (1.9 MB, PDF)
Giant via Ridge Trail (Chapel Pond trailhead) (482 kB, PDF)
Gray and Skylight from ADK Loj (1.1 MB, pdf)
the MacIntyres (Wright, Algonquin, Iroquois) (589 kB, pdf)
Macomb, Carson, Grace, Hough, Dix (440 kB, pdf)
Marcy from JBL (837 kB, pdf)
Nun-Da-Ga-O Ridge (230 kB, pdf)
Phelps (505 kB, pdf)
Saranac & Kiwassa Lakes canoe/kayak route (339 kB, pdf)
Street, Nye, or Rocky Falls (622 kB, pdf)
Tabletop (1.3 MB, pdf)
Whiteface, 5 Ways! (1.8 MB, pdf)

Getting there:

This Google map shows our route from Belleville to Lake Placid. At 346 km, it's the shortest. (Compare to 389 going via Cornwall, 371 via Watertown (Black River Rd), or 354 via South Colton and Tupper Lake).